The amygdala receives multi-modal sensory inputs and projects to virtually all levels of the
central nervous system. Via these widespread projections, the amygdala facilitates …

In extinction of auditory fear conditioning, rats learn that a tone no longer predicts the
occurrence of a footshock. Recent lesion and unit recording studies suggest that the medial …

Accumulating evidence indicates that phobic and posttraumatic anxiety disorders likely result
from a failure to extinguish fear memories. Extinction normally depends on a new learning …

Much evidence indicates that emotional arousal generally improves memory and that the
amygdala is responsible for this effect. The available data suggest that stress hormones and …

Emotions generally facilitate memory, an effect mediated by the basolateral amygdala (BLA).
To study the underlying mechanisms, we recorded BLA, perirhinal and entorhinal neurons …

Manipulations that reduce or enhance the activity of basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons in
the minutes to hours after training have been shown to respectively impair or facilitate …

… Author links open overlay panel Joe Guillaume Pelletier , Jean-Claude Lacaille … an increase
in the gain of inhibition to compensate for enhanced P-cell activity (Pelletier et al., 2007). …

The activation of the electroencephalogram (EEG) is paralleled with an increase in the firing
rate of cortical neurons, but little is known concerning the conductance state of their …

… Recent results suggest that the conduction time from the amygdala to the PRH cortex is
constant irrespective of distance (JG Pelletier, D. Paré, unpublished observations). Thus we …

This study tested whether firing rate and spike shape could be used to distinguish projection
cells from interneurons in extracellular recordings of basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons. …